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forely perfecuted by them, had great heaviness and continual forrow in his heart, upon their account. And let us implore the mercy of God for them, in the words of this excellent prayer of our church; "Take from them, O Lord, all ignorance, hard"nefs of heart, and contempt of thy word, and fo fetch them home, bleffed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be fayed among the remnant of the true Ifraelites, and be made "one one fold under one fhepherd, Jefus Chrift our Lord, Amen."

1 Rom. ix. 2.

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BEL, his faith made his offering acceptable,
Abimelech, what is to be learnt from his story,

Abram, why changed to Abraham,

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Abraham, the nature of the covenant with him explained, 163
his trials and afflictions,

faying Sarah was his fifter no lie,

his fubmitting to offer Ifaac, a type of the love

how all the earth is blessed in his feed,

of God to men,

Abraman, the Perfian and Indian devil,

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ibid.

ibid.

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Agur, words of,

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Agrippa, king, the last who bore that title,

Ahafuerus, fuppofed to be Artaxerxes Longimanus,

Ahaz, king of Judah, in diftrefs,

Ahaziah, his history ought to forwarn us from going to

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his interview with the high-prieft,

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Daniel's prophecy of him,

his treatment of the Jews,

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Alexander, his death,

359

divifion of his empire,

ibid.

creation,

Antony overcome by Cæfar,

Apocrypha, what and whence named,

inftitute the Chriftian fabbath,

fcripture,

Altar, brazen, its dimenfions and ufe,

Americans, notions of their idol,

Americans, their customs prove a descent from Adam,

Ammonites territory,

Amorites territory and defcent,

Amos the prophet, the scope of his book,

Angels, no mention of them in Mofes' hiftory of the

Antiochus Epiphanes oppreffes the Jews,

Antiochus the Great, his hiftory,

Apis or Ofiris worshipped under the form of a bull,

Apoftles worthy of credit, and why,

Arabians, their conformity in phrafes with those used in

Arbaces, governor of Media,

rebels against Sardanapalus,

Archelaus depofed and banished,

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Ariftobulus, the firft king of the Jews after the captivity, 366

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Ark of Noah, reflections on it,

Ark, where placed in the temple,

Arm, Hebrew ufe of this word,

Afhtaroth, i. e. queen of heaven, the moon,

Afia, how peopled,

Afmoneans, the origin of that family, how long the fu-

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365

ibid.

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2

ibid.

3

ibid.

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Babylon

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Barcocab, who he was,

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Bath Col, the only kind of revelation under the second

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Belus or Nimrod,

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Benjamin the Jew, his account of the ten tribes,

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Bethany, where fituated,

Bethel, golden calf there carried away by Shalmanefer,

Bethfaida in Galilee,

Bethphage, its fituation,

Bible, why so called,

Bleffings, fupernatural effects followed on the Patriarchs,

The cuftom of parents and priefts recommended there-

from,

Boaz, his hiftory explained,

Breathing, how understood of God's breathing in man at
living foul,

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Canaan, land of,

how divided,

Cakes, by whom offered,

Calvary, or Golgotha, its fituation,

Calf, molten, why in that form,

Cambyfes, father of Cyrus,

properly fo called,

Canon of the fcripture,

Canticles, their defign explained,

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20

190

4

8

its defcription, nations,

ibid.

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251

69

355

Captivity,

Captivity, to the return from thence, the fixth period in
Jewish history,

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from that return to Chrift the feventh period, ibid.
heads thereof,

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the number of those who returned from thence, 294

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Ceremonies of the Jews not derived from the Egyptians,

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Children, why fo much defired by the Jewish women,
how this word is used in fcripture,

CHRIST, Jofephus' account of him,

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his coming endeth the feventh period of the

Jewish hiftory,

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prophecy of Jerufalem exactly fulfilled,

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what is meant by his coming, and the coming of

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difference in idolatry forbidden, by the 1st & 2d, 193

Commandments

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